Denfair Highlights | Nau

Recently I introduced you lot to the novel Australian build NAU. Launched simply final calendar month yesteryear NAU founder Richard Munao, nosotros enjoyed a delicious luncheon at the Denfair Belle Restaurant & Oyster Bar designed yesteryear multi-award winning Fiona Lynch Studio. Further supporting Denfair's mission to promote authentic, Australian design, CULT helped render the Belle Restaurant amongst designs yesteryear Ross Didier together with Adam Cornish including the X-Table, Strand Chair together with Rev Stool. 

Marking the official launch of  NAU in Australia, Denfair follows on from their successful USA launch at ICFF inwards New York. Talking amongst the designers Adam Cornish, Adam Goodrum, Gavin Harris together with Jack Flanagan I non only learnt to a greater extent than well-nigh each of their designs, I gained insight into their backgrounds, noting how passionate each 1 of them is well-nigh their work. With founder Richard Munao equally the driving strength behind the production together with industry of their slice of furniture together with lighting designs, NAU represents a novel Australian pattern possess yesteryear promoting the best inwards Australian pattern together with inventiveness to the world. 

Though diverse, the NAU range of slice of furniture together with lighting created a beautifully cohesive collection at the Denfair stand upward which was designed yesteryear Melbourne architectural together with interior exercise Design Office. Featuring a striking backdrop inwards smoked cork, the stand upward received a commendation for 'Best Large Stand' at the Denfair Awards.

Here's a closer expect at a alternative of the  NAU products introduced at Denfair.

TAKUSHI yesteryear Gavin Harris for NAU (pictured above). Elegant, functional together with adaptable, Takushi features a folded steel leg exceptional that appears to float independently from the tabular array top. It is designed amongst a express let out of components, reducing its toll together with environmental impact. The tabular array top is available inwards timber veneer or laminate.

BILGOLA yesteryear Adam Goodrum for NAU. Inspired yesteryear the Australian modernist architecture prevalent on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Bilgola is a lightweight collection of slice of furniture that includes a lounge chair, java table, dining tabular array together with chair, dining bench together with daybed. Modern together with versatile, the chair together with sofa designs characteristic an exposed linear frame, paired amongst a canvass sling back upward together with voluminous cushions. These pieces are stackable together with appropriate or residential together with commercial use.

STRAND yesteryear Adam Cornish for NAU. The philosophy behind Strand is that the whole is greater than the amount of the parts; each constituent industrial plant amongst the other to do pieces that rely solely on their unison. Inspired yesteryear the vintage steel slice of furniture from the 1950s, the collection is made from simple, tactile materials, chosen for their honesty together with mightiness to historic menses amongst dignity. Taking cues from braided steel cables, 3 aluminium ‘strands’ piece of employment inwards unison to do the outline of the design. Quaint, intricate together with tactile, Strand is humble plenty for homes together with cafes, nonetheless rigid together with ergonomically suited to commercial applications.

BULBO yesteryear Gavin Harris for NAU. Smart, flexible together with modern, the Bulbo collection includes a serial of components that tin give the sack live on interchanged together with assembled together to do tables together with stools inwards a multifariousness of heights together with sizes. Fittingly named later the Castilian give-and-take for light, Bulbo’s shape is inspired yesteryear the shape of a low-cal bulb. Bulbo features induction charging technology, cleanly concealed inside an integrated key tabular array box.

CONVERSE By Adam Cornish for NAU. Coining the term ‘micro-modular’, Converse introduces a novel typology for sofa pattern that bucks the tendency for oversized bulky styles. With its petite proportions together with timeless pattern language, Converse is a space-conscious solution for both residential together with commercial projects. The sofa organisation allows the user to travel the writer amongst measure together with customisable configurations, that piece of employment individually, or inwards reconfigurable combinations.

REV yesteryear Adam Cornish for NAU. Rev is named later the revolving procedure of metallic spinning; the manufacturing technique used to arrive at this collection of stools. Available inwards 5 dissimilar powdercoat finishes, Rev is a robust stool that tin give the sack live on specified inwards fixed or adjustable height, indoor or outdoor, floor-fixed or loose. The repetition of circular elements inwards the seat, pes residual together with base of operations simultaneously reinforce the revolve concept together with do an interesting visual detail.

The total NAU collection is right away available solely from all CULT showrooms inwards Commonwealth of Australia together with New Zealand.

Stand design: Design Office / Fabric Partner: Kvadrat Textiles / Photography: Dianna Snape

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